VERONICA MARS - Not Pictured

Dick: Put on your dancin' shoes Mars, cause tonight we're gonna up chuck to the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie to beat.
Veronica: Up...chuck??
Dick: You heard me.


We're gonna take a moment and CELEBRATE the renewal of my favorite PI! Okay, onto the show.

Busy Beaver always working...nobody likes an eager Beaver...so many quotes this season for that crazy killer. Poor Beaver. Never underestimate the power of neglected child syndrome. Seriously. He went from cute Beaver last week to psyscho Beaver this week and he played it so well...and how could you not feel sorry for him given those last words?? My name is CASSIDY! Yes, yes it is.

I liked the flashback at the beginning and it looks like the writers are finally giving into the epic romance with the Logan/Veronica pairing in the "way things would have been". More on that later. But yeah, when Veronica graduated and Keith stood up and cheered, I definitely welled up. Didn't see that coming. 'You were expecting some other reaction?' It was written so perfectly, and the scene was well rounded out by Dick slapping Veronica's ass. I'm really starting to like that kid. I was a little upset that Weevil got arrested. Geez...just let the poor guy graduate.

It's nice and everything that they found a decent way to wrap up the Jackie storyline, especially since she won't be back, but I could really care less about that. So she lied about being rich and famous...at least Wallace can get back to normal now. I really hope he and V have more good stuff together next year, sort of a season one feel again.

Woody getting captured was sort of a forgone conclusion, and was somewhat underplayed, but it did set up the gutwrenching Keith-death fake out, which, if I was thinking rationally, I would have probably seen the whole time, but I wasn't, and I didn't. I cried then too, especially at that other mini-flashback scene with the puppets. Who knew puppets were sad?

So yeah, when 'CW' walked back in and blew Aaron's brains out, it almost made me less pissed off about the scene in the elevator when he confessed again to killing Lily, just in case we weren't sure. Man, Clarence Weidman is a badass...I've liked him since Rat Saw God. It doesn't, however, take away from the sorry excuse for a murder trial. "Its noir" my ass. Its my first genuine Mars complaint is what it is. There was so much crap wrong with that not guilty verdict its unreal. The first, most obvious, and probably only thing I'll point out is that, yes, Aaron is a rich guy charged of a serious crime, but Jake is also a rich guy who's real pissed off about that other rich guy killing his daughter, so it kind of evens the playing field. Where were Jake and Celeste to testify and make sure everything was being done that needed to be done to put him away? It would have been just as noir to have him get a lesser sentence and still have CW get into the prison somehow and kill him, or time served, or even have him get off, but write it better. It was just the first storyline on the show that just wasn't well written, bottom line. I hope I never have to say that again.

Back to my favorite part...the LoVely epic romance that the season ended on! Obviously I loved that Logan was the one to save V...epic romance at its best! And the callback to the pilot with Logan on Veronica's lap except in reverse was a tearjerker too...Ahh...the whole thing was great. Of course, I didn't expect for them to go all out and be together at the end of the episode, but hey, I'm not complaining...they're the best couple on TV. Okay, maybe their tied with the other Logan and Rory...but still, pretty great!

So cliffhanger...the suitcase. No clue really, but its fun that it has something to do with the mystery instead of V's personal life. At this point I think it has something to do with Aaron or something they did together because she was sort of left after CW killed Aaron and he had something to do with stealing the suitcase from Cliff...so I don't know